WNBA Single-Season Effective FG Percentage Record Progression
Every season that raised the bar, and the leader in every season between.
The WNBA single-season effective fg percentage record is 68.7%, set by Nneka Ogwumike in 2016. It has stood for 10 years. The mark has been raised 2 times since 1997.
Record Holders
3 marks since 1997| Year | Player | eFG% | Stood for |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 |
 Nneka Ogwumike
|
68.7% | still standing |
| 2003 | Tamika Raymond | 66.8% | 13 years |
| 1997 | Haixia Zheng | 61.8% | 6 years |
The earliest marks here are records only in the sense that nobody had done better yet. Season length, schedule and the rules themselves have all changed, so a figure from the 1870s is not comparable with a modern one and is not offered as though it were.
Every Season
29 seasons| Year | Leader | eFG% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Dearica Hamby | 58.6% | |
| 2024 | Jonquel Jones | 61.5% | |
| 2023 | Jackie Young | 61.7% | |
| 2022 | Sylvia Fowles | 62.2% | |
| 2021 | Sylvia Fowles | 64.0% | |
| 2020 | Alysha Clark | 67.7% | |
| 2019 | Allie Quigley | 60.8% | |
| 2018 | Jonquel Jones | 64.2% | |
| 2017 | Sylvia Fowles | 65.5% | |
| 2016 | Nneka Ogwumike | 68.7% | new record |
| 2015 | Emma Meesseman | 56.6% | |
| 2014 | Brittney Griner | 57.8% | |
| 2013 | Maya Moore | 58.7% | |
| 2012 | Sylvia Fowles | 63.8% | |
| 2011 | Sylvia Fowles | 59.1% | |
| 2010 | Candice Dupree | 66.4% | |
| 2009 | Crystal Langhorne | 57.4% | |
| 2008 | Le'coe Willingham | 58.0% | |
| 2007 | Lauren Jackson | 56.8% | |
| 2006 | Lauren Jackson | 57.5% | |
| 2005 | Michelle Snow | 55.1% | |
| 2004 | Sue Bird | 56.1% | |
| 2003 | Tamika Raymond | 66.8% | new record |
| 2002 | Tamika Raymond | 56.8% | |
| 2001 | Latasha Byears | 60.4% | |
| 2000 | Murriel Page | 59.0% | |
| 1999 | Crystal Robinson | 57.2% | |
| 1998 | Isabelle Fijalkowski | 55.4% | |
| 1997 | Haixia Zheng | 61.8% | new record |